Windows Live Mail helps you organize your mail, calendar, and contacts all in one place on your PC. Check multiple email accounts in Mail, like Windows Live Hotmail, Gmail, and Yahoo! Mail Plus.

You can even see your email, calendars, and contacts when you don't have an Internet connection. Windows Live Mail makes it easier to find what you're looking for by grouping conversations together if you like. Upcoming events appear next to your inbox, and you can quickly add things to your calendar right from your inbox.

Windows Live Mail is part of Windows Live Essentials, which also includes Windows Live Messenger, Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, Writer, Family Safety, Windows Live Mesh, Bing Bar, Messenger Companion, Microsoft Silverlight, and Outlook Connector Pack (Microsoft Outlook Hotmail Connector and Social Connector Provider for Windows Live Messenger). You can install just Mail or all of Windows Live Essentials.

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Windows Live Mail is part of Windows Live Essentials, which requires the following:

Operating system: 32- and 64-bit editions of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 with the Platform Update for Windows Vista; or Windows 7; or Windows Server 2008 with Service Pack 2 and the Platform Update for Windows Server 2008; or Windows Server 2008 R2.

For Photo Gallery and Movie Maker: Some required components of DirectX 9 may be installed for you if they're not already on your computer.

For Windows Live Mesh: To run Windows Live Mesh on a Mac, you must have OS X 10.5 or newer installed. If you already installed an earlier version of Window Live Sync beta or Live Mesh beta, please see the detailed release notes for additional requirements.

Click the Download button on this page to start the download, or select a different language from the Change language drop-down list, and click Change, before you click Download.

Where you see a company or publisher listed in a security message, make sure the company name is Microsoft Corporation, and then click Run, Continue, or Allow.

The installer will open. Select the programs you want to install,* and then click Next. *All previously installed Windows Live programs will also be updated if you don't have the latest versions installed yet.

Go ahead and use other programs on your computer while you wait.

When it's done, look for your new programs on the Windows Start menu, under Windows Live, or in the Windows Live folder.

One download, lots of great stuff. Windows Live Essentials gives you instant messaging, e-mail, blogging, photo editing, and more. Note that clicking "Download" means you agree to the Microsoft service agreement and privacy statement. Additional details below.